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Party at Aboye

November 15, 2013 by leslieclark 2 Comments

After all our work was done we headed for the desert: a region we had not been able to visit since 2007.  On the way we stopped at Aboye, checked on the matrone, and had a party for the people there.  When we arrived and they saw who was with us: tuareg guitarists Hasso and Alhassane, they sent us a sheep as a gift and a bribe to insure there would be a concert that night.  After dinner the crowd began to arrive–quietly in the night as nomads always do.  They got a surprise when Hasso asked Ned to sing a song.  After exchanging numbers many times, the crowd was dancing, ululating and clapping and American cowboy music and rock has a new place in the tuareg culture.

IMG_1439 IMG_1451Bennie dances with a very talented and animated young dancer from Aboye.

Most surprising about the visit was that the people at Aboye recognized Ned as a relative of Jim (his father and my brother) who had danced so vigorously with them in 2000.  I guess he made an impression!  Ned certainly did.

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  1. Linda Lamb

    November 29, 2013 at 3:05 pm

    Hey wait a minute…all this fun and it is the ONLY night I went to bed early….
    Linda Lamb

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  2. Leslie Clark

    November 29, 2013 at 4:26 pm

    You snooze you loose–we did miss you.

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